Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

PAHs are chemicals released into the air from the burning of coal, diesel, oil and gas, or other organic substances such as tobacco. The study found that children exposed to high levels of PAHs in New York City had full scale and verbal IQ scores that were 4.31 In urban areas motor vehicles are a major source of PAHs.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Prenatal exposure to environmental pollutants known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) which are released through the burning of fossil fuels, can adversely affect a child’s intelligence quotient or IQ, new research by the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health (CCCEH) at the Mailman School of Public Health has revealed.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 17, 2009

The same sea level rise that will be coming to our Southern California beaches, to the bays of San Francisco, to New York City, to Miami, to the Gulf Coast states, has already arrived in Tonga and has already forced some of Tonga’s South Pacific neighbors to abandon their homeland of the past three centuries.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

(Credit: GM) General Motors and Segway plan to take a two-wheel concept vehicle for a spin around New York City on Tuesday. The prototype vehicle, called Project PUMA (Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility), is designed to ease congestion and pollution problems in cities. Just a missing persons report.

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